As the first single, it is very misleading to what actually follows, and in a perfect world, it would have been left off the release completely. Notably, opening track ‘Steal My Girl’ is a lackluster, overproduced attempt to hold onto the vestiges of the sugar coated boy band 1D started as. They were all good in their own rights, but listeners will be hard pressed to find much wrong with this album. That isn’t to diminish any of their previous works, mind you. It fits them, and it fits with their growth. What makes FOUR so wonderful is the fact that it actually sounds like what the One Direction guys would wont to release. While 2013’s Midnight Memories hinted to the direction the quintet was leaning towards, it wasn’t as coherent of a piece, genre jumping with each track. Not only did they need an album to shut those boy band critics up, but they also needed to release something their longtime fans knew they were capable of. (At least, we’d assume it’d be easy, we wouldn’t know.) So, yeah, we mean it when we say One Direction had something to prove with their fourth studio album, aptly titled FOUR. And yes, it is easy to hate the popular boy band, especially if you believe they are riding on their good looks to get them plays. Namely those who believe they have superior music taste because they listen to music in a less radio-friendly genre, or created by bands old enough to be their grandparents. There are lots of people who would like to see One Direction fail.
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